Sentence examples for hag from inspiring English sources

Only now can I see how terrible my attitude was, but I told him that he didn't need to play grandson to every prairie hag.

She seemed afraid to be with him, afraid of who might show up unbidden, which hag from the past come to confront Ray, to remind him of what he'd done and who he was, an old beast they all haunted because they could not forgive him.

Wendy Wasserstein was the kind of woman many women didn't feel comfortable befriending, especially since she was what they feared being themselves: overweight, single, and a fag hag.

Dulles hag been ill.

"Shut it, old hag," he could be seen writing when Mizuho Fukushima, the youngish female head of the left-leaning Social Democratic Party, took the stage.

He is said to call the town ajouz al-shamta, "the old hag".

As Jonathan goes about his apple-pressing, the plot unfurls in tiny incoming waves, revealing a wicked aunt, an old hag in rags, a family servant, and a cave hidden beneath a ha-ha.

She tells him to put out a finger so she can feel it, but Hänsel pokes out a twig instead, and the nearsighted old hag is sorely disappointed at how skinny he is.

In 1919, he described Lloyd George as "this syren, this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanged woods of Celtic antiquity" (his crime, thought Keynes, was to punish Germany too severely in the Versailles treaty).

That thought might come on me when prone in a peat-hag, the ground water soaking upwards to converge in my marrow with the rain pelting down.

Our heroine, Lisa Sarah Hoaree), deceptively sweet in knee-socks and riding-hood jacket, is no damsel in distress; plucky and determined, she seeks out the hag-witch and slowly earns her begrudging respect.